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Whether you’re planning your wedding vows, writing a toast, or just daydreaming about someone special, these 100 quotes on love and marriage from poets, artists, and philosophers are sure to inspire.

1. “Where there is love there is life.”– Mahatma Gandhi

2. “To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow–this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.”– Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

3. “If I get married, I want to be very married.”– Audrey Hepburn

4. “I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate then when I fall asleep your eyes close.”– Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

8. “I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I’ve led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.”– Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

9. “If I had a flower for every time thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.”– Alfred Tennyson

11. “We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness–and call it love–true love.”– Robert Fulghum, True Love

12. “Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”– Zelda Fitzgerald

13. “What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life–to strength each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?”– George Eliot

14. “We loved with a love that was more than love.”– Edgar Allan Poe

15. “Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”– Plato

16. “When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.”– When Harry Met Sally

17. “I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.”– Marilyn Monroe

18. “Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”– Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

19. “Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it be rather a moving sea between the shores of your souls.”– Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

20. “What is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul.”– Victor Hugo

21. “When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.” – Arrigo Boito

22. “Who, being loved, is poor?”– Oscar Wilde

23. “A great marriage is not when the ‘perfect couple’ comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.”– Dave Meurer

24. “There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.”– Martin Luther

25. “There is no remedy for love but to love more.”– Henry David Thoreau

26. “Love at first sight is easy to understand; it’s when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.”– Sam Levenson

27. “When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.”– Friedrich Nietzsche

32. “Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.”– E.E. Cummings

33. “This is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there’s no need at all to understand what’s happening, because everything happens within you.”– Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

34. “People are weird. When we find someone with weirdness that is compatible with ours, we team up and call it love.”– Dr. Seuss

35. “In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.”– Rumi

36. “The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.” – Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

37. “When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.”– Albert Einstein

38. “Romance is the glamor which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.”– Elinor Glyn

39. “Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”– Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

40. “Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get–only with what you are expecting to give–which is everything.”– Katharine Hepburn, Me: Stories of My Life

41. “When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance.”– John Lennon

42. “I don’t want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don’t want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want… a steady hand. A kind soul.”– Shana Abe

44. “Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.”– William Shakespeare

45. “They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”– Tom Bodett

46. “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.”– Rumi

47. “Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”– Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Airman’s Odyssey

48. “The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It’s a choice you make–not just on your wedding day, but over and over again–and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.”– Barbara de Angelis

49. “To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”– David Viscott

50. “We can do no great things; only small things with great love.”– Mother Teresa

51. “Love doesn’t make the world go round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile.”– Elizabeth Browning

52. “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”– Robert Heinlein

53. “Love those who love you.”– Voltaire

54. “In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.”– Janos Arnay

55. “The bride and groom–May their joys be as bright as the morning, and their sorrows but shadows that fade in the sunlight of love.”– Minna Thomas Antrim, A Book of Toasts

59. “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”– Emily Bronte

60. “Come, let’s be a comfortable couple and take care of each other! How glad we shall be, that we have somebody we are fond of always, to talk to and sit with.”– Charles Dickens

61. “We need a witness to our lives. There’s a billion people on the planet… I mean, what does any one life really mean? But in a marriage, you’re promising to care about everything. The good things, the bad things, the terrible things, the mundane things… all of it, all of the time, every day. You’re saying, ‘Your life will not go unnoticed because I will notice it. Your life will not go unwitnessed because I will be your witness.'”– Shall We Dance?

62. “Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.”– Robert Browning

63. “Think not because you are now wed, that all your courtship’s at an end.”– Antonio Hurtado de Mendoza

64. “Happiness is anyone and anything at all, that’s loved by you.”– You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown

65. “I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.”– Rita Rudner

66. “The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.”– Rumi

67. “All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.” – Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

68. “What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”– Helen Keller

69. “And think not that you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.”– Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

70. “Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.”– Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

71. “Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.”– Henry David Thoreau

72. “I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.”– Arwen, The Fellowship of the Ring

73. “In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.”– Maya Angelou

74. “I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me.”– Roy Croft

75. “Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.”– Bruce Lee

76. “You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known and even that is an understatement.”– F. Scott Fitzgerald

77. “To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.”– Mark Twain

78. “I fell in love the way you fall asleep, slowly and then all at once.”– John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

79. “You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”– Oscar Wilde

80. “In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”– Fitzwilliam Darcy, Pride and Prejudice

82. “Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides, you have a to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part.”– Louis de Bernieres, Captain Corelli’s Mandolin

83. “Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.”– Albert Einstein

84. “It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.”– F. Scott Fitzgerald

85. “There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”– Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

86. “If all else perished and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.”– Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

87. “Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.”– William Shakespeare

88. “You don’t love someone because they’re perfect; you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.”– Jodi Picoult

89. “Love insists the loved loves back.”– Dante Alighieri

90. “Love is a joint experience between two persons–but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.”– Carson McCullers, Ballad of the Sad Cafe and Other Stories

91. “If you love a flower, don’t pick it up. Because if you pick it up, it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession. It is about appreciation.”– Osho

92. “Ah me! love cannot be cured by herbs.”– Ovid

93. “One is very crazy when in love.”– Sigmund Freud

94. “Love is a friendship set to music.”– Joseph Campbell

95. “You know you are in love when the two of you can go grocery shopping together.”– Woody Harrelson

96. “Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.”– Lao Tzu

97. “Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”– Oprah Winfrey

98. “Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.”– Khalil Gibran

99. “Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.”– Francois de La Rochefoucauld